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Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

Naguib Mahfouz

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Naguib Mahfouz
Age: 94 †
Born: 1911
Born: December 11
Died: 2006
Died: August 30
Artist
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Journalist
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Writer
Cairo
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason
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I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.
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One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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The real malady is fear of life, not of death
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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
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